LEADER 03259nam  2200649   450 
001 9910786263503321
005 20230124190756.0
010   $a0-19-997719-4
010   $a0-19-991976-3
010   $a0-19-998036-5
035   $a(CKB)2670000000335431
035   $a(StDuBDS)AH24394136
035   $a(SSID)ssj0000820939
035   $a(PQKBManifestationID)12361687
035   $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820939
035   $a(PQKBWorkID)10864180
035   $a(PQKB)11651973
035   $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107411
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3055911
035   $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3055911
035   $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10816643
035   $a(CaONFJC)MIL550760
035   $a(OCoLC)865508500
035   $a(EXLCZ)992670000000335431
100   $a20120103d2012      uy             0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aur|||||||||||
181   $ctxt
182   $cc
183   $acr
200 10$aMind and cosmos $ewhy the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false /$fThomas Nagel
210  1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (x, 130 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-19-991975-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $g1$tIntroduction$g3 --$g2$tAntireductionism and the Natural Order$g13 --$g3$tConsciousness$g35 --$g4$tCognition$g71 --$g5$tValue$g97 --$g6$tConclusion$g127.
330 8 $aIn Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodies. If materialism cannot accommodate consciousness and other mind-related aspects of reality, then we must abandon a purely materialist understanding of nature in general, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features ofbiological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history. An adequateconception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. No such explanation is available, and the physical sciences, including molecular biology, cannot be expected to provide one. The book explores these problems through a general treatment of the obstacles to reductionism, with more specific application to the phenomena of consciousness, cognition, and value. The conclusion is that physics cannot be the theory ofeverything.
606   $aCosmology
606   $aCosmogony
606   $aBeginning
606   $aCreation
606   $aScience$xPhilosophy
615  0$aCosmology.
615  0$aCosmogony.
615  0$aBeginning.
615  0$aCreation.
615  0$aScience$xPhilosophy.
676   $a113
700   $aNagel$b Thomas$f1937-$025897
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bMiAaPQ
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910786263503321
996   $aMind and cosmos$93733570
997   $aUNINA